PhDs told to avoid too much teaching
Postgraduates must resist pressure from managers to take on a teaching load so heavy that it affects their research, a conference has heard. John McKenzie, a PhD researcher and teaching assistant in...
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Top-up teens want more for their money
An exclusive poll looks at what sixthformers expect from university. Jessica Shepherd reports The top-up fee generation of students want more for their money, including higher standards of teaching...
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Top teachers win £10k for making an outstanding impact
England's and Northern Ireland's top 50 university teachers and learning support staff were announced this week, writes Jessica Shepherd. The Higher Education Academy chose the winners from 242...
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Adding water to organic seeds of change
LIORA LAZARUS LAW LECTURER AND DRAFTING SECRETARY TO THE OXFORD GOVERNANCE WORKING PARTY When Liora Lazarus stood up to speak in Oxford University's congregation last November she surprised many...
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Docked pay deal
Canterbury Christ Church University - the last institution threatening not to return salary withheld from staff taking part in the cancelled industrial action over pay - has struck a deal with the...
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Giant money-spinner
Cambridge University contributes billions to the national economy, according to a report from research firm Library House. "If the university did not exist, more than £50 billion and more than 150,...
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Healthy collaboration
A £4 million government grant will kickstart the creation of a "super healthcare university", the result of a collaboration between three higher education institutions. St George's Medical School and...
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NUS fights good fight
The National Union of Students Scotland has launched a "Stamp out Sectarianism" campaign, backed by First Minister Jack McConnell. Posters, beermats, badges and postcards are going to campuses across...
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Open-access results
Under new guidelines issued this week by the research councils, research grant holders from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Medical Research Council and the Economics...
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Correction
Jonathan Swingler was described as the head of Southampton University's School of Engineering Sciences in a Times Higher article last week, "Intelligent design creeps on to courses". He is in fact a...
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Omission
John Fitzpatrick, a senior lecturer in law at Kent University, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours announced earlier this month, but was omitted...
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£12m punt on spin-offs
Hedge fund invests in biomedicine at Oxford, reports Claire Sanders A major hedge fund is to invest £12 million in biomedical engineering at Oxford University in return for a major slice of any money...
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Threat to sue over cut hours
Twelve students are threatening to sue the University of Wales, Newport, for breach of contract after teaching time on their courses was halved at short notice. Solicitors acting on behalf of the...
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Nurse, 78, is a doctor at long last
The study of homosexual identities in Spanish literature is unlikely to appeal to the typical septuagenarian great-grandparent, writes Olga Wojtas. But former nurse Sheila Wilyman, who has graduated...
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Cash incentives might provide carrot to go green
Staff and students could be offered cash incentives to help cut energy bills at Warwick University. The idea is among others being considered by Nick Hillard, an ecologist who joined the university...